VetSkinsFan wrote:I'm eagerly awaiting Shutter Island. As much as I disliked his chick flick phase, DiCaprio is a great actor. If you're not familiar with his earlier works, you should check out This Boy's Life (with Di Nero) or Basketball Diaries.

Harry Potter is a kids movie. That was their target audience, demonstrated by (among other things) how hard they tried to get PG ratings for all of the films. But even if we throw that out, Hooligan's point still stands, and there are plenty of other quality kids movies that prove this point. Calling something a "kids movie" doesn't grant it immunity from being a bad film.

I'm also pretty sure that the thousands of professional movie reviewers cited by RT understood that they were watching a kids movie, and yet they near-universally blasted it to smithereens. Maybe they didn't get the memo that poorly written dialogue, awful acting, bad directing, etc., aren't actually criticisms of a kids movie.

While I agree fantasy movie doesn't equal kids movie and I agree tLoR was deffinately not a kids movie, I have to disagree with Harry Potter. Harry Potter is definately a kids movie and it most definately sucked!

I haven't been able to watch any of the HP movies with out falling to sleep on them and I'm a SciFi / Fantasy fan! Why does Harry have to be such a wuss? None of the witches on that show have any real power.

Maybe that is because I re-reading the Robert Jordan "Wheel of Time" seriers, but Rand al'Thor would kick Harry's but w/o thinking. Heck he could wipe out all of Hogsworth with out even breaking a sweat.

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Harry Potter is a kids movie. That was their target audience, demonstrated by (among other things) how hard they tried to get PG ratings for all of the films. But even if we throw that out, Hooligan's point still stands, and there are plenty of other quality kids movies that prove this point. Calling something a "kids movie" doesn't grant it immunity from being a bad film.

I'm also pretty sure that the thousands of professional movie reviewers cited by RT understood that they were watching a kids movie, and yet they near-universally blasted it to smithereens. Maybe they didn't get the memo that poorly written dialogue, awful acting, bad directing, etc., aren't actually criticisms of a kids movie.

Harry Potter was a family movie IMO, but I don't feel like arguing shades of gray. I'll concede like most others do b/c this is a fun place, not a place that I should have to defend my opinion in exhausting detail.

And personally, I couldn't care less if you paid me about what Rotten Tomatoes or Siskel & Ebert say about movies. I go on my own opinion. If it looks interesting, then I'll go with it. If not, I'll wait to catch it flipping thru cable.

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What a useless piece of propagandist rhetoric that is.

VetSkinsFan wrote:And personally, I couldn't care less if you paid me about what Rotten Tomatoes or Siskel & Ebert say about movies. I go on my own opinion. If it looks interesting, then I'll go with it. If not, I'll wait to catch it flipping thru cable.

RT is simply a collection of what hundreds (or thousands) of professional reviewers say about a movie. I don't use it as a rule of thumb or blindly follow the ratings it assigns, but it's not a bad place to start if you're trying to figure out whether a movie is going to be worth watching or not. And as it happens I like Roger Ebert's blog too (when he's talking about movies, anyway).

However, that doesn't mean I don't have my own opinion about movies or think through them for myself. I don't think there's a strict dichotomy between looking to critics and making up one's own mind.